EVERYTHING FLORIDA DIVORCE

FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULE OF PROCEDURE RULE 12.285. MANDATORY DISCLOSURE (a) Application. (1) Scope. This rule applies to all proceedings within the scope of these rules except proceedings involving adoption, simplified dissolution, enforcement, contempt, injunctions for protection against domestic, repeat, dating, or sexual violence, or stalking, and uncontested dissolutions when the respondent is served by publication and does not file an answer. Additionally, no financial af

What is the Change? Commencing January 1, 2019, alimony in Florida is no longer subject to tax-deductibility. What does this mean? Previously, alimony had the benefit of being tax-deductible. The party paying alimony would pay the amount of alimony ordered, in the complete amount ordered. At the end of the year when they filed their taxes, they were entitled to deduct the amount of alimony they paid on their taxes. This often had the impact of making the actual alimony paid